awesome wood brick floor (with + without cement)

2.12.13 | 3:00pm

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Of the many inspired DIY ideas to be found in the rustic Sunset House we posted previously is a beautiful and rather startling floor made of wood “bricks”. We’d never thought of simply cutting the ends off wood planks to make wood bricks. Industrious owners Lilah and Nick made a pattern of the wood bricks, end-cuts-up, above, and then grouted it with cement, which makes some bricks darker, while others take on a muted silvery sheen.

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Great and surprising. We especially love the floor as-is,imaginig it weathering with age on a patio or outdoor living room.

19 Responses to awesome wood brick floor (with + without cement)

Wood block floors were common in railroad repair shops. They absorbed heavy loads and dropped tools better than regular clay bricks. Those at the Central of Georgia Roundhouse were restored several years ago (it’s a museum now).http://chsgeorgia.org/Railroad-Musuem.html

You know, I don’t know the precise answer to either of your questions. I posted it really because I like the uncemented wood and would try to find a way to make a floor like that myself, probably filling the cracks with dirt or small pebbles. I don’t know that I would seal the wood; probably just let it weather. If it’s hard wood, it should hold up for a few years at least.

I saw a floor like this once inside a log home. This is how they explained the process to me. They sliced 6″X 6″ cedar post to make their tiles, glued them down to the sub floor, mixed the cedar saw dust with polyurethane to make their grout, grouted it and let it dry, then they put several coats of clear polyurethane on top. It was beautiful!

This looks great for a while but you never or at least I haven’t seen any aged shots of stuff lie this. Used outdoors I can imagine how this would look over time. The blocks would warp and shrink and it would look awful and be dangerous to walk on I imagine. But then I could be wrong.

This type of floor cover has been used for decades, I`ve seen this used in large shops at Pearl Harbor in the shipyard, held in place cement mortar. At Pearl they used oak, it took a pounding, fork lift traffic, heavy equipment.

We did this years ago inside a very large open family room. It was lots of work but beautiful. We used to collect offcuts from a local roof truss manufacturer. The offcuts were pine and jarra. They seemed too good to be just firewood. Have since sold the house.

I can’t believe no one has asked what is UNDER the wood. I’m assuming from the pictures that this floor is located outside. The cement grouting will protect the top, but what stops the wood from rotting on the bottom or from being chewed by termites?

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